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University of Toronto Press Beyond the Welfare State
Book SynopsisNeoliberal calls for welfare state reforms, especially cuts to public pensions, are a contentious issue for employees, employers, and national governments across the western world. But what are the underlying factors that have shaped the response to these pressures in Canada and Australia? In Beyond the Welfare State, Sirvan Karimi utilizes a synthesis of Marxian class analysis and the power resources model to provide an analytical foundation for the divergent pattern of public pension systems in Canada and Australia. Karimi reveals that the postwar social contract in Australia was market-based and more conducive to the privatization of retirement income. In Canada, the social contract emphasized income redistribution that resulted in strengthening the link between the state and the citizen. By shedding light on the impact of national settings on public pension systems, Beyond the Welfare State introduces new conceptual tools to aid our understanding of Trade Review‘This is a well-written and researched book with a wealth of detail and excellent notes, bibliography and index.’ -- Andrew Podger * Journal of Pension Economics and Finance vol 16:04:2017 *Table of ContentsList of Tables Foreword Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction 1 Review of Theoretical Perspectives on the Welfare State 2 Retirement Income Systems: Canadian and Australian Cases 3 National Settings, Class Forces and Keynesianism 4 Postwar Expansion of Pension System in Australia 5 Postwar Expansion of Pension System in Canada 6 Welfare State Restructuring and Neoliberal Variations in Canada and Australia 7 Restructuring of the Pension System in Australia 8 Restructuring of the Pension System in Canada Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£49.30
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd The Tragedy of Social Democracy
Book SynopsisThe Tragedy of Social Democracy is about the rise, fall and future of social democracy as a politico-ideological force, a force that was believed would democratically transform capitalism into socialism. Instead of democratizing capitalism, social democracy was itself liberalized by capitalism. Why has social democracy gravitated into the magnetic field of neoliberalism? Who can be blamed for such a tragedy? Can social democracy reverse its political and ideological eclipse?Numerous books and articles have been written on social democracy, and its political viability has continued to be the subject of debate among left-wing intellectuals. In The Tragedy of Social Democracy, Srivan Karimi sheds light on the innate structural vulnerability of social democracy to progressive degeneration. Karimi theorizes the transformation of social democracy and establishes a structural linkage between its rise, ascendancy and subsequent decline since the theoretical raid of neoliberalism on Keynesianism in the 1980s and highlights certain public policy measures that are indispensable to the social democratic renewal that is being debated among socialists and social democrats.
£12.30
